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The trials of Telo Rinpoche
Title
The trials of Telo Rinpoche [videorecording] / a White Crane Films production for BBC ; produced and directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam.
Published
Berkeley, CA : Berkeley Media LLC, [1999?], c1994.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as part of the BBC's Everyman television program in 1994.
Camera, Wayne Derrick ; editors, Nick Anderson, Paul Shepard, Cilla Beirne.
Chiefly in English; portions in Russian and Tibetan with English subtitles.
Summary
Documentary portrait of Telo Rinpoche, a.k.a. Eddie Ombadykow, a young Philadelphia native and son of Kalmykian emigrants. The young man has become a monk through study in India and finds his current position as co-chair of Kalmykia's religious affairs department a daunting assignment. He's shown working with government officials and visiting the Dalai Lama in India, his family in Philadelphia, and locations where he plans to build new Buddhist learning institutions in Kalmykia.
Variant and related titles
Everyman (Television program)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; Russian; Tibetan
Added to Catalog
September 16, 2009
Credits
Camera, Wayne Derrick ; editors, Nick Anderson, Paul Shepard, Cilla Beirne.
System details note
DVD.
Subjects
Also listed under
White Crane Films.
Berkeley Media.
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